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Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fly Country by Anthony Lang

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Fly Country by Anthony Lang

by | Feb 28, 2025

John George Haslette Vahey (1881 – 1938) was born in Belfast and was educated at Ulster, Foyle College, and Hanover. He first worked as an architect and then as an accountant and then became a full-time writer. His first of 52 novels was published in 1916 and his last...
Untouchable by Mike Lawson

Untouchable by Mike Lawson

by | Feb 25, 2025

Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and grab a copy of the latest Joe DeMarco adventure, which is out today. Untouchable by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2025) is the 18th title in a consistently fine political thriller series that began 20...
Blackout and Other Tales of Suspense by Ethel Lina White

Blackout and Other Tales of Suspense by Ethel Lina White

by | Feb 21, 2025

Crippen & Landru Publishers (C&L) produces single-author short story collections, both current crime fiction authors and uncollected stories by mystery and detective writers of the past. It’s the latter that I find most valuable, since so many authors...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

by | Feb 14, 2025

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) has long been one of my all-time favorite authors. Well known for creating the Regency romance, she also produced mysteries and historical fiction. She considered a trilogy about the House of Lancaster her master work but she was unable to...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

by | Feb 7, 2025

Colin Watson (1920–1983) was an English journalist and author of a successful detective series set in the prosperous market and port town of Flaxborough in East Anglia. Flaxborough is a fictionalized version of the town of Boston in Lincolnshire where Watson was a...